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Gifted thief Romeria has flourished from her days as a street kid pilfering wallets to survive. Now she thrives, stealing jewels from the rich under the involuntary employ of New York City’s most notorious crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is plunged into a startling realm of opposing thrones, warring elven, and elemental magic she cannot begin to fathom.
Her quest is straightforward: Steal a stone from Islor’s sacred garden without anyone discovering her true identity, which would earn her certain death. But the identity she has inexplicably assumed is that of the captured Ybarisan princess—an enemy to Islor after she poisoned their beloved king and queen on the day she was to marry the prince.
Her betrothed, the newly crowned King Zander, detests her with every grain of his handsome being. Fortunately for Romeria, she is more valuable to him alive than dead. Zander gives her a choice: life in a cell, or an acquittal of all charges in exchange for her help in exposing the growing plot against him.
Romeria sees no other option and embraces the tricky role of smitten queen-to-be until she can escape, a ruse that brings her far closer to the king than she anticipated and threatens more than her safety. As she digs deeper into this sacred garden and the ancient feud between Ybaris and Islor, she discovers monstrous truths that could spell ruin for all.
She would know the world of vengeful gods and monsters, and the lengths one would go for love. And nothing would ever be the same for her again.
MY OPINION
„A Fate of Wrath & Fame” was my first book written by K.A. Tucker. I really like read fantasy stories, but it is very difficult to interest me in the plot, because everything were in these genre and these books.
„A Fate of Wrath & Fame” has a very strange beginning. I was lost in this story when I've started reading it and I was confused to the middle of the book. We have here the other world and then we have a real world. We are lost together with Romy, but in the end we agree to take part in adventure and see whats happened, when we „go through the glass”.
This story is told completely from Romy's POV, so it is simple to understand that when Romy is confused or shocked, we, readers are too.
We saw the new, dangerous world, kings and queens, magic and witches through her eyes.
About the male hero, Zander is the one and only Romy's enemy. They were set to marry in previous time, but because of circumstances now they are enemies. I don't have my opinion about Zander. He is good, but I think that I must know him better in the next book in series.
Big applause for K.A. Tucker writing skills. As I said that was my first book from this author, but while I was reading „A Fate of Wrath & Fame” I was proceeding in this plot. Reading this book was like swimming to me and I think that I give a chance another book written by this author.
In the end „A Fate of Wrath & Fame” is a really nice story. I am a huge fan of fantasy, but more of these stories are boring and repeatcable. Here we have something new and something old, but written in a perfect way.
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